Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill) is an erotic novel by John Cleland first published in England in 1748. Written while the author was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel." One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of which I emerged, at length, to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power of love, health and fortune to bestow; whilst yet in the flower of youth, and not too late to employ the leisure afforded me by great ease and affluence, to cultivate an understanding, naturally not a despicable one, ...

From her position of wealth and happy respectability, Fanny Hill looks back at her early life and disreputable adventures. Arriving in London alone, poor and innocent, she falls into the hands of a brothel-keeper. But only when she is separated from the man she loves does she enroll in the 'unhappy profession' of prostitution. Fanny becomes a kept woman and also works in an elegant bawdy-house, entertaining polite voluptuaries. By the age of eighteen, she can afford to retire; in her marri...

One of the most banned books in history: John Cleland's tale of a woman's racy adventuresShortly after she turns fifteen, Fanny Hill loses both her parents. She moves to London hoping to find work as a maid, but soon finds herself working for a madam who intends to sell off Fanny's virginity. Though she is at first fearful of contact with men, Fanny soon learns the ways of extracting enjoyment and pleasure from sex. Written in the form of a confession, the novel fo...

John Cleland, respeitado jornalista e filólogo que viveu no século XVIII, escreveu inúmeros romances, mas somente um livro o fez conhecido em todo o mundo: "Fanny Hill: Memórias de uma Mulher do Prazer. Unanimemente considerado um clássico da literatura erótica de todos os tempos, Fanny Hill é um romance muito bem escrito, em estilo ágil e conciso, desenvolvendo-se com fina elegância. Ao descrever a trajetória de uma jovem órfã do interio...

Fanny Hill, shrouded in controversy for most of its more than 250-year life, and banned from publication in the United States until 1966, was once considered immoral and without literary merit, even earning its author a jail sentence for obscenity.The tale of a naïve young prostitute in bawdy eighteenth-century London who slowly rises to respectability, the novel–and its popularity–endured many bannings and critics, and today Fanny Hill is consider...

Fanny Hill est aujourd'hui considéré comme le plus grand livre érotique anglais de l'âge d'or du libertinage.Le personnage clé de Fanny Hill est en effet inspiré de Fanny Murray, prostituée de dix-sept ans qui était l'idole des aristocrates londoniens, tant son zèle au travail la consacrait de loin, chaque mois, meilleure employée de toutes les "maisons" britanniques.Sous la plume de Cleland, elle raconte ses expériences, décrivant son arrivée dans la capitale, son initiati...

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Escrita por el novelista John Cleland , la novela fue prohibida a las dos semanas de su publicación y circuló de forma clandestina hasta que se permitió su edición. Considerada como la primera prosa pornográfica inglesa y la primera pornografía que usa la forma de novela, es uno de los libros más perseguidos y censurados de la historia. La novela consta de dos cartas largas (que aparecen como los volúmenes I y II de la edición original) escritas por France...

Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.

First published in England in 1748, "The Memoirs of Fanny Hill" (also known as "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure") is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland."The Memoirs of Fanny Hill" chronicles the life of a London prostitute, describing with scatological and clinical precision many varieties of sexual behaviour. Although elegantly written, the novel was condemned as pornography and was suppressed from its initial publication, almost never being mentio...

Fanny Hill (1748-1749) es considerada uno de los clásicos de la literatura erótica universal. A los pocos meses de su publicación esta novela fue prohibida por inmoral, su autor, John Cleland, y su editor condenados, siendo protagonista del primer juicio de un libro por obscenidad en Massachusetts, Estados Unidos, en 1821, en el que, entre otros epítetos, la pobre Fanny fue descrita como "poseída por el diablo porque incitaba a los ciudadanos a tener pensamientos lujuriosos". En 1960, los ...